UNCASVILLE – When Diana Taurasi accepted the offer from Russian team UMMC Ekaterinburg to be compensated for sitting out the 2015 WNBA season, many nodded knowingly for two basic reasons.
Taurasi, 33, has been dropping hints for years that the...

Swin Cash is not ready to stop playing basketball. She figures she has at least one more year, perhaps two, before she has accomplished all she needs in the sport that has helped enrich her life.
That doesn't mean she's running in place waiting for the...

Over the course of the season, The Courant will look back at the coaches and players who were a part of UConn's first national championship team 20 years ago (1994-95 season).
Jamelle Elliott's aspiration was to become an athletic administrator....

From her new office at the University of Kentucky, Tamika Williams was able to see the Wildcats volleyball team practice this season. That must have been therapeutic for someone who as a girl in Ohio played softball and volleyball before picking up a...

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ESTERO, Fla. -- Every game is a learning experience, for those who play and those who watch. In the aftermath of UConn's 89-53 win over Wisconsin-Green Bay in Saturday's Gulf Coast Showcase championship game, here's what we learned:
1. Toughness is there: Many of the players have admitted that the inherent toughness that has served as the core of many UConn teams in the past has been slow to develop in this team. And then Green Bay came out Sunday, totally unafraid of UConn's talent, and jabbed,...

Here's a look at UConn center Natalie Butler, the transfer from Georgetown, who must sit out this season.
She's a very nice young woman, exactly the kind of person you would expect UConn to pursue.
This story will also run in The Courant on Monday...
If circumstances were different, Natalie Butler would be preparing for her sophomore season at Georgetown this week, fresh from her impactful debut as Big East freshman of the year, close to a family she cares so much about in Fairfax, Va.
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STORRS — If circumstances were different, Natalie Butler would be preparing for her sophomore season at Georgetown this week, fresh from her impactful debut as Big East freshman of the year, close to family that she cares so much about in Fairfax, Va.
It didn't work out that way. Butler, a 6-foot-5 center, was one of the peripheral casualties of a head coaching nightmare that enveloped the Hoyas' program after the departure of Terri Williams Flournoy for Auburn following the 2011-12 season.
"It...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It happens as if on cue with another great UConn women's basketball season. The pundits who marvel at the depth and talent of the team's starting lineup ask Geno Auriemma if he thinks it's the best he's ever had.
Auriemma knows this is an impossible question to answer. It's like comparing Babe Ruth to Derek Jeter. Generational shifts change the game.
Auriemma understands his players can play. But asking him if the starting five he takes to the national semifinals Sunday...

Playing for Geno Auriemma is not easy. And it shouldn't be, or so say those who fully subscribe to the risk-reward theory of finding success.
But that's not really the point now, as the state celebrates his record ninth women's basketball championship.
“It means we've done something that no one else has ever done,” Auriemma said. “So you're flattered and you're grateful and you're all the things that come with this kind of accomplishment. Of course. That's not the driving force. That's...

After many years as teammates with UConn and the Connecticut Sun, Renee Montgomery, Kalana Greene and Tina Charles developed the type of sisterhood that grows from being together through so many interesting times.
And that relationship will last a lot longer than their basketball careers. So when Charles told the Sun she wanted to be traded, and the Sun accommodated her on draft day, everyone understood it was just a business decision.
"I wish her the best," Greene said. "She's one of my best friends....